Meduza spoke about construction workers illegally brought to military installations, who were not given wages and were threatened by the police.

Dozens of workers came to Kamchatka to the closed city of Vilyuchinsk to build military facilities. They are not paid the promised wages and are threatened by the police, Meduza writes , citing the workers themselves.

Entry into the city is carried out with passes through a checkpoint, but one of the builders, electrician Ruslan Shamsutdinov, told the publication that he was brought to Vilyuchinsk by boat without the appropriate documents. The worker was promised to be paid 80 thousand rubles, but in the first month of work he did not receive an advance payment.

Colleagues told Shamsutdinov that the promised money had not been paid for several months - they were given amounts much less. Builders cannot leave the city, as they may be detained due to illegal entry to the checkpoint.

As Meduza’s interlocutors tell us, the facilities they are building are numbered 720 and 3002. They employ about 70 people. Due to non-payment of wages, some construction workers stopped going to work in early November. In response to the demand to pay money, management promised to fire all those dissatisfied.

On November 6, Shamsutdinov and two colleagues came to the personnel department, asked to pay them off and let them go home. The head of the personnel department - the wife of the director of the enterprise, Nina Zorych - said that the employees were registered in Moscow, so they would be counted there. Zorich forwarded the question of when the workers would be given tickets to Moscow to her husband. Shamsutdinov said that he was ready to wait for him.

“Do you think he will get up and come running at your call alone? You'll land a little, otherwise you'll have to call the men now, damn it. Look what a fucking Tatar he is! Now I’ll show you this tone, the shit is sitting on a shovel! Now I’m calling the men and the police,” Zorich replied (Meduza refers to an audio recording of this conversation).

Zorich did not answer the publication’s questions, saying that she could file a “police statement against the correspondent for invasion of privacy and slander.” She did not specify what the slander was.

As the publication found out, the contract for the construction of “structure No. 720/1” in Vilyuchinsk was received by the Front Engineering company, which built stadiums in Moscow and St. Petersburg, buildings of the prefecture of the Moscow Central Administrative District and several Moscow courts.

The second facility is being built by Rosengineering Energy, half of which is owned by an offshore company in Cyprus, and the other half by Rosengineering CJSC. The main owner of this company, the publication emphasizes, is Dmitry Novikov, an acquaintance of Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev and his skiinstructor .